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Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> That's not necessary. I regularly... |
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> - start off with a basic text-console-only install |
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> - and then I fire up "emerge gimp" before heading off to work |
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> By the time I get home from work, Portage has pulled in and built the |
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>approximately 40 packages necessary to get a basic X GUI running with |
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>TWM and has built Gimp. "rpm-hell"... what's that??? Portage rocks!!! |
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> The basic X support doesn't show up in /var/lib/portage/world. It's |
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>installed as dependancy for various applications. Another cute trick is |
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>to "emerge bbkeys" without first "emerge blackbox". blackbox doesn't |
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>show up in world either. It's a dependancy for bbkeys. |
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>[m3000][root][~] grep -c ^. /var/lib/portage/world |
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>54 |
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>...yes folks, only 54 entries in world for a full-featured desktop with |
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>a whole bunch of apps. Like I said, all the dependancies end up as |
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>dependancies. |
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Always more than one way to skin a cat. O_O LOL How much thought did |
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you put into that? |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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